Any Norah Jones fans out there?

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I am a big Norah Jones fan. Anyone else out there?

― sandra shelly, Friday, 8 July 2005 05:44 (twenty years ago)

Um, not overly a huge fan, but I liked her stuff with the Peter Malick group

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Friday, 8 July 2005 05:47 (twenty years ago)

I have no real feelings about her music one way or another -- it's perfectly pleasant enough, I suppose -- but the lady herself was good hearted enough to come to my aid when I was having trouble navigating a curb with my daughter's stroller, which I thought was jolly nice of her.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 8 July 2005 05:48 (twenty years ago)

on the other hand....
"I kick Norah Jone's ass and she just won several grammys. She can barely sing or play the piano. Either can any of the them compared to me. I now perform for only fifty thousand dollars, because we have a country that doesn't respect high level musicians."

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 8 July 2005 07:50 (twenty years ago)

I wonder how old marissa is doing these days.

― The New and Improved / Kate (papa november), Friday, 8 July 2005 08:02 (twenty years ago)

She seems well/better...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 8 July 2005 08:07 (twenty years ago)

Marginally, I just checked her site.

― The New and Improved / Kate (papa november), Friday, 8 July 2005 08:08 (twenty years ago)

She even did a couple of gigs recently...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 8 July 2005 08:12 (twenty years ago)

Wow. Theres video footage up on the site isn't there?

― The New and Improved / Kate (papa november), Friday, 8 July 2005 08:17 (twenty years ago)

Yes. They are very short (about 30 seconds) but they taste nice.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 8 July 2005 08:19 (twenty years ago)

I like the way Norah looks disturbed and not really quite beautiful enough, which makes her even more attractive, except I don't feel any sexual urges when I watch her. She's weird. But I was impressed by her performance of Gram Parsons's "She" in this Parsons tribute DVD I watched recently. Not bad at all. And she let Keith Richards put his arm around her while they dueted on Bood-a-low Bryant's "Love Hurts." Why he didn't grab her ass I don't know, that guy must be getting old.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

i'd hit it.

(if it would keep her from singing)

― Tigerstyle Shamanic Vision Quester (sexyDancer), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

When I saw Gillian Welch in NYC, she came out on stage for a surprise guest appearance. She was beguilingly awkward -- I mean she looked like a high school student who hadn't even been in a school play before.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

can't say i know much about her music, but met her at a bbq in brooklyn a few weeks ago and played freeze with her and some kids, she's a really cool and low key woman, so i can say i was a fan.

― commissioner gordon, Friday, 8 July 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

A couple of my friends went to music school with her, said she was nice.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

I thought that the single off her last album, "Sunrise", was really good and underrated/underplayed for, y'know, the lead single off of one of the biggest selling albums of last year.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

I like how she's shaped like a normal (albeit cute) person.

Her piano playing seems utterly without innovation, involvement, or style, but I guess it suits her songs well enough.

Saw her doing a duet with Willie Nelson last night, and her voice seemed to suit Willie's stuff very nicely.

― PB, Friday, 8 July 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

She's fine. Her first album has some nice songs. It's a little weird that she's sold jillions of records, and obviously that has a lot to do with being basically unchallenging, which easily overlaps with uninteresting, but I find the mere fact that she's sold jillions of records at least a little interesting in itself. If she doesn't "deserve" to be a superstar on the merits, she equally doesn't deserve the kind of venom she sometimes inspires. And she is, by all accounts, a perfectly lovely person.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

i like her ok. i agree with gypsy mothra.

― chief of chaff (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

I like Norah because she is a great singer with a great phrasing style which she has picked up from listening to past greats. You should hear her version of an 1940s song called 'In the dark' which Dinah Washington has also done. Very sexy, very modern, very bluesy at the same time.

I am sure there are some venom thrown at her but for the most part I thought she gets neutral to favorable opinions. The more rock'n roll, indie or rap one is into, Norah may not suit them well ;-)

― sandra shelly, Saturday, 9 July 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)

I guess maybe I'm just sick of well-phrased bluesy vocals. But I can't really say I hate her or anything, and I'm sure she's nice enough. I found the post-grammy tabloid coverage of her very endearing -- you know, the stuff about the grammy winner still living in this dive with her boyfriend.

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 9 July 2005 01:57 (twenty years ago)

I love her version of 'Cold, Cold Heart'. Hank's is the best, but Norah certainly improved on Tony Bennett's effort, that's for sure. Much as I love Tony, I hated that schmaltzy rendition.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 July 2005 02:09 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, her cold cold heart is great. Norah's is closer to Dinah Washington's than Hank's. It is actually pretty audacious when you think about it, to take a heart-ache country song and turn it into negotiating-for-love kind of sentiment and sound. She was probably naive to try it and that may be the reason why it turned out this great.

― bb man, Saturday, 9 July 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

A friend gave me a recording of her doing 'help me make it through the night'. She sang that very well

― bike man, Sunday, 10 July 2005 06:33 (twenty years ago)

She sounds good coming from stereos two houses away on a summer evening while I'm smoking up in the back garden, but I don't play her at home.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Sunday, 10 July 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

I love her song 'Sunrise'

― Hot Pants, Sunday, 10 July 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Sunrise is a great great song, but I got burned buying Come Away with Me because of "Don't Know Why" so I passed on the newer album. Is there anything else good on it, anyone?

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 10 July 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

I quite like Come Away With Me.

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 10 July 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

I'd probably buy anything with Bill Frisell on it though.

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 10 July 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

tremendoid, a bit surprised that you liked Don't know why but not the rest of Come Away With Me. Anyway, her newer album has a bit of variation on it. I like What am I to you, there is a Tom Waits cover which is good and she seemed to have written lyrics to a Duke Ellington song which is very jazzy. On the whole, her newer album is a step up, I tend to think.

― tabitha Logan, Sunday, 10 July 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

I hate this bitch

― That One Guy (That One Guy), Sunday, 10 July 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

This thread needs pictures.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 10 July 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

Oh, what is the punk dude doing with the mellow mistress? Are they an item?

― hello dolly, Sunday, 10 July 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Yes. When two celebrities stand next to each other for a photo, this means they're SECRETLY MARRIED

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 10 July 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Oh shit, she's cheating on Billie!

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 10 July 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

LOL..celebrity gossip at its best, hey some harmless fun..and then we can always gossip about cruise and holmes ;-)

That is a cute picture, joseph. Was norah on sesame street?

― stormy weather, Sunday, 10 July 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, apparently she sang about how she didn't know why Y didn't come. I am not making that up. :)

― Deluxe (Damian), Monday, 11 July 2005 09:51 (twenty years ago)

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― Kroger Honkingup (nostudium), Monday, 11 July 2005 11:10 (twenty years ago)

wow, she looks so indian in the billie joe pic!

― president carter loves repetition (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 11 July 2005 11:21 (twenty years ago)

Kroger... what are you saying?

She looks more like a mixed black-hispanic-white in that picture but in other pictures, she looks like a regular brunette.. but quite pretty, isn't she?

― kudlow johnson, Monday, 11 July 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

ten years pass...

Come Away With Me is a spectacular album, somehow sounds a lot better now than it did when it was all over in 2002. Listen to it regularly, all the way through - great atmosphere, great songs, great singing. Cool record. Never got into her other stuff but I'd be open for recommendations.

― niels, Monday, 10 August 2015 08:41 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

New album has good tunes - sounds a bit muffled though, wonder why...

Featuring Brian Blade, Lonnie Smith and Wayne Shorter

― niels, Monday, 24 October 2016 18:26 (nine years ago)

I like her whole discography, honestly, but she went in an interesting direction with her last album that I think would appeal to many people who would never listen to a Norah Jones album (or even realize it was a Norah Jones album if they didn't recognize her voice).

― the most corrupt, deceitful, lying, caniving, treasonist, POS (Old Lunch), Monday, 24 October 2016 18:42 (nine years ago)

I loved her last album and I was never a fan of her previously. Kinda disappointed the new one seems like a retread in style to earlier work.

― Ross, Monday, 24 October 2016 18:45 (nine years ago)

that's how it's being sold - but not really much like the first two albums... it's jazzy though!

never listened to any of her... "non-jazz" albs, any recommendations?

― niels, Monday, 24 October 2016 19:02 (nine years ago)

"...Little Broken Hearts" is really great, niels. Stand out tracks: "Travelin' On", "All a Dream" and "Miriam" with its Twin Peaks theme breakdown.

― Ross, Monday, 24 October 2016 20:20 (nine years ago)

Cool, I'm checking it out now - sounds good so far!

― niels, Monday, 24 October 2016 20:28 (nine years ago)

little broken hearts is good. new one is good. most of her records are good. i like her.

― akm, Monday, 24 October 2016 20:55 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

“It Was You” features Norah on voice and piano with drummer Brian Blade, bassist Christopher Thomas, organist Pete Remm, trumpeter Dave Guy, and tenor saxophonist Leon Michels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y96XTJHY08

it is very good

― niels, Saturday, 14 July 2018 08:49 (seven years ago)

I like the song/video “Happy Pills”

― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Saturday, 14 July 2018 14:47 (seven years ago)

Love happy pills! Whole record too

― Ross, Saturday, 14 July 2018 16:09 (seven years ago)

two weeks pass...

Had the pleasure of seeing her live yesterday, a big open air concert, her great quartet (Brian Blade on drums, Chris Thomas on bass, Keith smth on organ) played the kind of music you'd expect to hear in a club. She really has a wonderful voice and I enjoyed the new songs, as direct as the old hits but more sophisticated. Feel like very few living jazz players can connect with such big crowds. Would def see again, and would pay good money to hear it in a small venue. She's a good songwriter.

― niels, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 09:48 (seven years ago)

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